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Monthly Archives: September 2013

A great RPG is one where choices actually matter, but The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings takes that to an entirely new level. Instead of merely swapping out a few dialogue lines and enemies, certain decisions affect the outcome of your entire story, thus leading you into vastly different settings and confrontations. More than that,…

At this point, MechWarrior Online has been in open beta for so long that you could be forgiven for thinking it came out months ago. To be sure, there was little in the way of new content when the official launch date dropped last week; instead, the well-worn “beta” tag at last slipped away and…

Gone are the days when saying you played an MMORPG meant you either played World of Warcraft or EverQuest; these days, the field is crowded with worthy rivals like Guild Wars 2, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, and a surfeit of free-to-play MMORPGs that run the gamut from garbage to gold. And the field’s…

In the beginning there was Final Fantasy XIV, and it was not good. For most games, the story would’ve ended there. But Square Enix, perhaps feeling that its prized franchise’s name was in danger of becoming too literal, undertook a mammoth effort to keep Final Fantasy’s legacy from being marred by such a disaster. Final…

Dig far enough under all the news about the tussles over mandatory Kinects and indie support for either the Xbox One and the PS4, and you’ll find a shocking bit of info: PC gaming is at its best since the 1990s. Were it John Lennon, PC gaming would be making haughty claims about how it’s…